Dhawan Family Overseas Grant

Established in 2024, the Dhawan Family Overseas Grant is available to full-time Singaporean undergraduates at the Singapore Management University.  It seeks to enable financially needy students to have a more well-rounded worldview by embarking on an overseas exchange programme with one of the University's partner universities in Asia.

• Full-time undergraduates pursuing any degree programme
• Singapore citizens
• Participating in international student exchange programmes with SMU partner universities in Asia
• Must have demonstrated evidence of family household income where the gross monthly per capita income is in accordance with prevailing guidelines to qualify for government bursaries

• Tenable for the recipient’s one semester of study abroad with an SMU partner university in Asia
• Valued at $2,000 to fund exchange-related expenses

Applications will be invited through Centre for Global Education and Opportunities' call for exchange applications:

• February to March (Fall exchange application)
• July to August (Spring exchange application) [if award is not given out for fall exchange]

Apply via Oasis > Self-service App (Financial Aid Application)

Centre for Student Financial Assistance
Office of Admissions and Financial Assistance
Email: finasst@smu.edu.sg

The endowed Dhawan Family Overseas Grant is established by SMU alumnus Taresh Dhawan (BBM, 2005), with the hope that this will allow students with financial challenges to have the invaluable opportunity to embark on an exchange programme. Currently a professional in the oil and gas industry, Taresh is himself a man of the world; his journey commenced when he left his home country of India to study at SMU in Singapore. His career has allowed him to live and work in countries as diverse as Barbados, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands, and now England where he currently resides. 

He strongly believes that in order to build a more empathetic world and foster global citizens, we must give our students as much exposure to different cultures as we can. He hopes that these human-to-human contacts will set into motion a ripple effect of friendship and empathy across borders. 

Taresh is otherwise also an avid supporter of his alma mater, contributing to fundraising initiatives such as the SMU Alumni Infinity Fund and the SMU Imagine Better book campaign. Thanks in no small part to the education that he received at SMU (not forgetting the financial support that he received from his benefactors), Taresh is lucky enough to be in a position to pay it forward.